The second part of Mme Touley's account of early French private presses in the duc d'Aumale's collection at Chantilly, with which we open this issue of the journal, describes those of the eighteenth century up to the time of the Revolution, when legal restrictions on private printing were, for a short period, withdrawn.

Editorial.

Frank Broomfield, who died aged 83 on 31 July 2011, served our Association for a great many years, becoming Honorary Secretary in 1973, and only resigning due to increasing ill heath in 2001.

Frank Broomfield, 1928-2011.

In about 1730, in the château de Véretz in Touraine, a small, aristocratic court came together whose way of life reflected the current of liberalisation in thinking and manners that followed the Regency.

The private press in France, part II : 18th century.